What’s the oldest thing you own that you still use daily?
Of forced obsolescence it’s hard to think of things being so old. We buy new electronics before the current one dies. Clothes we outgrow very quickly. Shoes also.
And no, we don’t have family heirloom passed on from great grandfather down to present generation. But I have a wrist watch from 2014 and a water bottle from 2007 before people made them a fashion statement. And a brain as old as the universe which is still serving me good.
Happy father’s Day weekend
Random thoughts 
The oldest thing that I own is my body. Aside from that relic of the last century, a few artifacts from my family but I am simply the custodian of such items as my family – both extended and immediate – are the actual owners.
On second thought, I guess my oldest possession is my spouse, Aaron. He always belittles me as being his “possessor!”
Happy Father’s Day to you, too, my Kenyan brother! 😉 Naked hugs!
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Hope you had a great weekend buddy
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Yes! Too short, though!
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Too short most of the time translates to a good weekend
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True! 😉 Naked hugs!
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I am happy about this.
My weekends are almost always short
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Happiness and holiness! You have a winning combination there, buddy! May I kiss your sanctified ring? 😉 Naked hugs!
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Daily?
Probably the round wooden kitchen table.
I bought it with four chairs from the bil of my best friend, Harry for 40 rand in 1981. Spent a week sanding it down and revarnishing it.
The chairs are long gone/ broken but the table is still going strong.
I also have a maroon and grey sweater my wife knitted forty years ago that I always use / wear in the garden during the colder months.
It’s a bit tatty, as you would expect but, then I too am a big tatty, and it still. keeps me warm.
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40 years ago! Ark you didn’t grow big and small over the years?
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The sweater still fits. I am more or less the same.
Grey hair,gimpy leg, glass eye, and my false teeth sometimes rattle a bit.
Otherwise, all good.
😉
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ME!
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Good one
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That I use daily? I have my great-grandmother’s silver sugarbowl that I use in my kitchen. It has a date on it of 1859.
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It would be hard to find anything in my village from that date.
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I think the oldest thing I have in my house is from the late 1700’s. But that’s a silhouette on the wall, not really an item I use.
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Now that’s pushing it too far. That is 200 years after migration began from Sudan through Ug
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Ark’s mention of his table reminded me of my antique maple table and 4 chairs. My mom bought it for me AGES ago (have NO idea of the date, but probably in the 60’s?). We don’t use it for dining purposes, but rather as a landing place for miscellaneous items.
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I can relate to that, Nan. I now have my mother’s dining room table, chairs, and china cabinet. Most of time it’s my worktable, and now and then we actually use it for dining. She bought it when she was first married, in the early forties, so it’s creeping up on antique status. I figure we’ll both get there at about the same time.
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Early 40s I think qualifies as antique.
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It do. The interesting thing is, the house we live in was built around 1790, and antique isn’t even close for that. A lot of the stuff in here came along for the ride, some of it equally old.
If I recall correctly, anything over 50 years is considered an antiquity…
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The one oldest thing I own and still use daily is my Quran. I keep it by my side always because, as it says in the book itself, it’s a book that cannot be doubted. 😁 I’m such a good Muslim, aren’t I. 🙂
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This is a keepsake, mate
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I have some furniture more than hundred years old still use. From my grandparents.
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That’s really old. I don’t think i inherited anything from any of my grandparents
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RM-Williams boots 40 years, reconstituted several times;
Seiko Watch 40 years, numerous battery replacements;
100 years old special Plato Edition, ravaged by silverfish; I could go on and on.
When you have chosen a simple life, you buy quality, it lasts and so it is more economical. I guess it is also an old mans thing.
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100 years old! That’s long.
I think you are right about simple life and the purchase choices one makes
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we moved into this house in 1972: it was my husband’s family house, and one of his ancestors built it somewhere around 1790. One of the perks of marrying an only child, there’s no squabbling over who gets what when it come to be time to split things up, and we have lived here ever since.
I guess basically it’s what we DO; I’ve learned to split wood, drive a car, run the tractor, stack wood and make curtains. Lots of curtains. And the simple life ain’t all that simple, but it’s a lot more fun.
No regrets, only that our time now is limited. sulk.
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That’s a house with history. I am not sure my clan goes back that far in time. You really have been a good student.
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I have an answer, but it might offend someone lol.
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Don’t be shy
I banned my grandma from the blog so anyone who gets offended can go to the police
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Let’s just say, that the oldest thing I have, which I still use daily, is me. And the things which make me, me.
I had a nomadic childhood, so items in consumer categories, that I use daily, aren’t that old. You’d be surprised at material things disappearing the way they do when you move a lot. But it will probably be my second oldest guitar. My oldest guitar wound up missing a long time ago.
I’m sure my first wife had something to do with that…
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Are sure your boat is not from Roman times?
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I’m getting old Mak, But I ain’t quite that old.
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Haha haha
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